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The Art of War
Author: Sun-tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 The ultimate guide to winning Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see...
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it,...
Lenin the Dictator
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Author: Victor Sebestyen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography Victor Sebestyen's intimate biography is the first major work in...
The Great Commanders of the Medieval World 454-1582AD
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 What qualities made Attila the Hun a strategist of genius? How did Henry V of England achieve victory at...
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future...
Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her...
After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank
Author: Eva Schloss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless...
Empire of the Deep: The Rise and Fall of the British Navy
Author: Ben Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 The bestselling complete history of the British Navy - our national story through a different prism. The story of...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity
Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed...
Written on the Knee: A Diary from the Greek-Italian Front of WWII
Author: Helen Electrie Lindsay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 During the Greek-Italian conflict of World War II, Dr. Theodore Electris, newly married and idealistic, was called up...
How Evolution Explains Everything about Life: From Darwin's Brilliant Idea to Today's Epic Theory
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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 How did we get here? It's the journey of a lifetime. All cultures have a creation story, but a...
Spies of No Country: Israel's Secret Agents at the Birth of the Mossad
Author: Matti Friedman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: "Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing." -The New York Times Book Review Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale...
The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England
Author: Dan Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: This brilliant new book explores the lives of eight generations of the greatest kings and queens that this country has...
Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima
Author: Stephen Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever...
In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The Roman army was one of the most effective fighting forces in history. The legions and their commanders carved...
Born On a Blue Day
Author: Daniel Tammet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'I was born on 31 January 1979 - a Wednesday. I know it was a Wednesday, becasue the date...
Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa
Author: Lawrence James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James...
A Brief Guide to Jane Austen: The Life and Times of the World's Favourite Author
Author: Charles Jennings Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Jane Austen is a mystery. The first incontrovertibly great woman novelist, she is, among other things, one of the...
Love Like Salt: A Memoir
Author: Helen Stevenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 CHOSEN BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL IN THE GUARDIAN AS ONE OF HER BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'It's a slice...
Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Was Forged
Author: Andrew Marr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The Sunday Times bestseller Now a major BBC TV series presented by Andrew Marr David Attenborough. Marcus Rashford. Jan Morris....
Slash: The Autobiography
Author: Slash Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 It seems excessive...but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. The mass of black curls. The top hat. The cigarette dangling...
Spring
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Author: Karl Ove Knausgaard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 "Spring features Knausgaard unbound, writing for the first time without a gimmick or the crutch of extravagant experimentation...Fall in love...
The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
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Author: Daniel Kalder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A mesmerizing study of books by despots great and small, from the familiar to the largely unknown. --The Washington Post A...
Everything is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes
Author: Phyllis Grant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 250 'What a beautiful, rich, poetic memoir this is. Phyllis writes of longing, suffering, family, and food with such delicate...
Popism
Author: Andy Warhol & Pat Hackett Format:Paperback Number of Pages: A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre...
Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime
Author: Debora Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-point, thrown into a van,...
The Story of Australia's People Vol. I: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia
Author: Geoffrey Blainey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Compelling, groundbreaking and brilliantly readable, The Story of Australia's People- The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia is the...
Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl
Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A startling history of the Chernobyl disaster by the winner of the Nobel prize in literature On 26 April...
The Universal Tone
Author: Carlos Santana Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The intimate and long-awaited memoir of guitar legend Carlos Santana. In 1967 at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium, a young...
Birds and Botanists
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Author: Trevor Pescott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: A fascinating local field guide for Geelong, using records from the Geelong field naturalist club (1880-1932). Shedding light on the history of...
This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl
Author: Paul Brannigan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's...
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Author: James Boswell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1312 A landmark in Boswell and Johnson studies In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of...
The Blind Watchmaker
Author: Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an...
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories
Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Extraordinary stories about Soviet children's experiences in the Second World War, from Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich What did it...
American Spirit: Profiles in Resilience, Courage, and Faith
Author: Taya Kyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The "American Sniper" legacy continues: Taya Kyle celebrates the American Spirit in her inspiring new book Life leads us...
Cairo: My City, Our Revolution
Author: Ahdaf Soueif Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Over the past few months I have delivered lectures, presentations and interviews on the Egyptian Revolution. I have had...
Special Ops Heroes
Author: Michael Ashcroft Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Special Ops Heroes tells the extraordinary stories behind Lord Ashcroft's collection of SAS and other Special Forces medals - the largest...
The Imperial War Museum Book of 1914
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Author: Malcolm Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'The sky was lit by burning villages and houses . . . Rivers and seas of flame leaping up...
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45
Author: Volker Ullrich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The long-awaited second volume of Volker Ullrich's acclaimed biography of the F hrer, taking us through the war years...
Europe: The First 100 Million Years
Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Accompanying the release of his new book Life- Selected Writings, this new format of Europe presents one of Tim...
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin
Author: Simon Jenkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The first short narrative history of the continent, from the author of the bestselling A Short History of England Europe...
Open: An Autobiography
Author: Andre Agassi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 He is one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to...
The Outpost: The Most Heroic Battle of the Afghanistan War
Author: Jake Tapper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of the deadliest battles of the Afghanistan...
Empire of the Indus
Author: Alice Albinia Format: Paperback Number of Pages: One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and...
The Age Of Revolution: 1789-1848
Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity the transformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by the...
1918 The Year of Victories
Author: Martin Marix Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 1918 examines both the Germans' tactics and the Allies' preferred solution to fighting this war, the combination of...